Barn Door Tracker Arduino

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Barn door tracker arduino. Hi i would like to share my design of a smart barn door tracker. Arduino controlled barn door star tracker 30 mar 31 2015 05 33 pm. Cut your two blocks of wood pieces into 13 x 4 pieces. No arduino no stepper motors no gears just a simple motor turning a threaded rod this barn door tracker rotates your camera at the exact same rate as the rotation of our planet a requirement for taking long exposure photos.

Arduino controlled barn door star tracker read 12523 times previous topic next topic. I know the arduino will be able to handle the stepper motor with a stepper motor driver but is the arduino uno powerful enough and have enough inputs for adding a lcd screen to it and some buttons for changing input values. Calibrating the barn door tracker with a digital level. Posted april 24 2018.

Assembly setting up your door tracker. Arduino stepper motor control john barton wood april 4 2014 at 8 10 pm. Eurotrax on mar 30 2015 01 03 am. I want to use my arduino uno to control a stepper motor for a barn door tracker.

Arun289 12 arun289 12 vacuum. Then i let it run with my tracker for a while and did some least squares fitting to see how it was working. The arduino board and additional circuitry can be powered with a 7 2 volt nicd battery for portability or a standard plug in power supply. A smart barn door tracker with arduino.

Hi i am a retired electro optical and controls systems design engineer having also served an apprenticeship as an optical instrument maker in the early 60 s. The arduino board and its associated shield are mounted on the base of the barn door tracker. 19 thoughts on building a barn door mount part 1. That means we want to spin our barn door tracker at a rate of 360 degrees every 24 hours which comes out to be 0 25 degrees per minute.

By arun289 april 24 2018 in diy astronomer. So i measured a nice and constant 7 255e 5 radians second over 10 minutes.